I'm removing this I'ts obvious now we don't know enough to make snapped conjectures.

Oh noes. If GOG goes bankrupt I lose access to all my games. No, wait...

there is another thread on this here: :)
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/kotaku_facing_financial_pressures_gog_quietly_lays_off_at_least_a_dozen_staff

So what happens if GOG does bankrupt? Will Galaxy stay around forever afterward?

So you are implying that people wouldn't?

That assertion is not anywhere near so solid as you are implying.

There's no such thing as an infallible backup method. Say someone backs up all their games to a hard drive. Then that hard drive experiences hardware failure. Now their games are all gone permanently, presuming GOG has gone down.

Also, what about people who have hundreds, or thousands, of GOG games? Chances are, they won't even have time to download all of them before GOG shuts down (if & when it does).

No matter if GOG games are backed up, being permanently cut off from their source via the GOG website will still be a very bad thing that puts the the end users who own them in dire straits.

There is only one thing that could save everybody! Release the Skyrim!!!11

I have a nas with raid1. Chances are small of something happening. If GOG shuts down, I will install another nas with a raid1 to mirror the first, just to be on the safe side.

Quite worrying. I don't believe in their current strategy. They put a lot of effort and resources into Galaxy and mimicking Steam, which cannot be successful considering the difference in scale of business. I'm afraid it's not the end of the story.

No. I'm implying it's easily preventable. People of course would.

That's what they get for allowing craploads of shovelware while rejecting awesome games like Grimoire and Aeon of Sands. Also, when was the last time we got a really good batch of old classics?

But no, it's not actually, because as I said, there's no such thing as an infallible backup method.

The next-closest thing to an infallible backup method would be to have multiple backups, and stored at multiple different locations. How many GOG users have the resources and also the time/energy/technical knowledge/wherewithal etc. to bother doing all of that for their GOG games? Probably there is only a very few who can/would do that.

Most GOG users seem to have the mistaken impression that simply downloading their backup installers once equates to their games having become permanently secure and forever accessible. But that's not actually true, not by a long shot.

I honestly can't understand all the doomsaying that is currently happening just because a news broke that some layoffs is happening.

Want to see the GOG's financial situation? Just wait till 21 March 2019. That's the schedule of CD Project's separate and consolidated yearly reports for 2018. All the doom and gloom are worthless if it just from hearsay.

And for those who hate Galaxy with passion, unfortunately Galaxy is still in the major picture. Just read here: https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/capital-group/strategy/

Of course. But by that definition nothing is safe, ever.

Take basic good precautions and you're mostly covered. Worst case store a particular game you like on the cloud. Besides you could get the installer from your friend. Or the torrents.

No, Im not worried about losing access to my games if GOG goes out of business. Infallible 100% sure I'll have access to them? No, but nothing ever is. It's still way more easily preventable that a proprietary authentication of a game not working because the server went down.

Contingencies, my friend. I'm not tech-savvy but even I have access to a free 50GB cloud drive. If you have a computer with a hard drive and internet, you can make two backups. The chances of both going bad before you can replace the first are negligible.

One of the few. (The proud? Wait, that's an advertisement for the US marines, innit? I'm not a marine.So, I'm one of some other few and non-necessarily proud … but not ashamed! One of the few, the self-assured, the self-reliant!)

Seriously, how many games do you have? Moore's law is arguably most evident in storage media. And why would you not have a local copy of ALL your games purchases? Are you sacrificing your bandwidth for the good of other people's Netflix addictions?

If nothing else, take this as a hint to start downloading your games now. It may take a few days / weeks / months (depending on the number and even how recently they were made, since e.g., Ultima IV is a whopping 26MB and Morrowind is 1300MB, whilst Fallout: New Vegas is over 3700MB, etc.).

Preparation would be a better response than panic, don't you think?